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THE BRUSBELO POST,
CiSKLIOLD,
BLUR MONDAY.
innseTioNs Fon nom; A FAstibT
wAsiiiso AND 1U' ISO,
I httee alwaye thought Oita the weekly
Waehlog ;vim the hardeet part of tho hone°.
wot.k. When I wits young, otte waehing
was tient ont to be done, mut ito I knew but
little about using the wash burl until I
WAS settled in my WO home. If niethers
would oly teaoh their girle how te de all
kinds of housework, hew ninth trouble it
;would save young housekeepers.
When my girle were tall enough to 'stand
at a tub and rubbing board, I taught thet
how to wash the towel,' and imarAer clot be
'Dien they learned to waeh the table huei
and next the pillow slips and sheete, etc
There is hardly any garment that nerd
rubbing all over. It should thoroughl
washed and the dirty vets rubbed
tioaped, before boiling. Fine muelin an
lace, ought not to be put upon the board.
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have not intich strength to rub iny clothes,
It makes the olothes beautifully white, but
they do not seem as nice and tame es they
do when I follow dieted method, I use 0101
tablespoonful of kerosene to three of
cold water, put it in the boiler mid add one
pint of best soft soap or tinehalf cake •
bard soap. Rub the elothes after soapht
them, especially the dirty spots, pet thei
into the water while it is void and let thei
boil 20 minutes or one-half tot hour. Alway
he snre ant/ have soap enougle itw if snap ;
settle, there will he a sticky, gleamy sem
artntml the sides of the v and in tit
rinsing water. The clothes ehoultl wel
rinsed and blued.
Some people put their clothes to soak th
night before washing and put spoonful o
kerosene in with the scup and water,
usually sheve e. half a bar of good latunir
soap and boil in a kettle of water until die
solved. This will do for a washing for si
persons.
wiTax iticsii IS STAINED.
with tea, coffee or fruit I spread it over a
pail or tub and pour boiling water through
the stains. I poue the dissolved soap into
two tubs and pour in lukewarm water
enough to cover the clothes. The fine white
clothing I put in one tub, the coarser art-
icles in the other tub, let them stand an
hour or uttil I get mer breakfast dishes
'washed, then I Avash the table linen, flue
shirts, cuffs and collars, sheets and pillow
slips. Have the boiler perfectly clean. If
it is rusted, make a bag of white cloth large
enough to hold the clothes and put theta
into it while boiling. Cut one quarter bar
of soap in smell pieces and lay in tho water
-with an onece of sal soda and let them boil
for hull an hour. After washing the white
clothes and the coarse towels, etc., I wash
the common prints and rinse well, starch
and bang out
If the man's socks are brown cotton I
-wash them in the same water and cotton
overalls, etc., and scald, rub and Hese in
other waters and hang out: Women's
black hose should be washed in clean, warm
water with soap; rinse well. Men's woolen
socks may be washed in the Same water.
Iliennels, blankets, etc., should be washed
in clean suds made of the nicest white
laundry soap, web rinsed in clean
hot or (told water, well sleeken out
and hung in an airy place to dry. When
my clothes have boiled I take thou into a
tub of cold water, wash them up and down
so as to get the soap out and wring them
Into another tub of clean wtwer. 1 rime
well and wring them into another water
slightly blued.
t soul that poor washers always use a
large quantity of
inatztxci To min THE 01111 seam.
an1 runlet; teeould be iron,;,1 first. 1 think
it foolish to tire oee'e tielf too meal with
ironinm
g ernaou elothes.
Steritheil clothen ehould be ironed well,
Clonoiton elothes may be slighted. (Inc likes
to see 1;:i.de tine teethes, mid theme whioh
tire laiti away tor shliness well 'rimed, but
shoots thot. are ti ha used soon and other
clothing t my be elteletel, or net waned.
Theee
y l 1,, eibliel tied afterst•artie h
dung
• tliied, and the deed mother ean have a
short re., 113 breathe and rest and read.
Clothea bo theroughly aired before
they are wurn. Never put damp clothing
into a
tit wers or trunk ti lay and mildew,
end cite anger the life td the wettrer,
Molex IYiersoe,
a 1 .
• A Muscular Sewing Machine,
sewing-uutehine his been invented,
„ which tht Chieago ite Comm; ree
✓ alleges, oitehee etteile, unit rapidly through
• layere of leather ilvemightlis Dine Mel; in
a this havirg beim atmomplished
ell the tiro exhibitory trial ; in is second
trial stiteints weie mole evenly and rapidly
three i 1 pie,» id hied m -e.; e maple term.,
eighths id :te Melt thielc; and in it third test,
thestin itetvereniarktileo feat was achieved-.
• that tif sewing through a layer of brass
oue,e'ght of an hal titiA, placed between
pieties of leather.
Roughness or the Skin,
BKOKBLBSS POWDER IN WAR,
AGRICULTURAL,
U Oleos nittny elletwitages to the Side That.
lug the ,ittnelc.
The introdection of emokeleespowiler 1100
had eonsiderable fte 40 with a change of
tactics on t•lie tickl of Little. In the itheoaeu ;
of ehe smelt° seinen no kith shies, the coin; I
piny ollieers not only lind it taster to wed •
together, but can eontrol their me, matt
judge the aka of the et e on 1 he enemy to
a it greater th•gree then wee irmerly pee.
sible. From their ;phi of view this inereae.
et1 power of control more then vonipeneatte;
the 'Meek for the deereencel fiteility of cou•
eeitheent s uokulees powder eenfees on the
defenee. It is true tbat the latter also prou
fits by tlw sante inereaectl pewee of control,
lent they argue that front the nature of
things the defense, titeiving only to proveet.
being beaten, matereite the at tack lights with
the detertninatiou to win, tee letter is in tI
position to make fox better use of thin new
powder than the former. Put in another
Lorin it comes to this: The heavier and
more accent' e the fire whistling over a
trench, the herder it is to melte men reise
their beetle over it to take aim, Smokeleits
powder makee, it easier Inc the attack to de,
liver ench n lire; henee the dilliculties of the
defenee will be inueeneed.
Further, in the itleteutm of emoke, men
stationery on the defence eremite eseape the
if clepresionginiluenee of the dead and wound.
3 ngrom tle
ed 1 l ,
ti
a A cold twain of ehuttcc is one of the beet
It prepare: eine tor roughiteee of the skin pro- I
dueed I•y whit or eunlawn. To make this,
8 mix titgether four oumee of oil of almonds,
rn I half rai it twee of white wax and half eu mime,
e of eperiniteet i. Those ingredients ehonlil be
1 Put hi an ettrthen jar. A a old Dundee mar-
melaile jar is -useful for the purpose. Set,
e the air in a eaneepan of water and mix the
f ingredieets thoroughly together. Whim
1 . the mixt ure is a smooth liquid stir in two
' ' ninnies ot eraegoelower water. Mix well
and pour the mixture into any ornamental
x earthen jars which you nety possess. This
ovate to tench better than the cold creams
esually sold in shops, ae these ere often
matle of lard, which easily penetrates into
the pores and totals to make the skin coarse.
Moreover, all unguents which act on the
skin in this way Mine the unhappy reputa-
tion of making the skin flabby and produe •
in wrinkles. Vaseliee is sometimes avoid-
ed. by women, owing to its alleged tendency
to produce a growth of superfluous hair.
Sitnple olive oil is also an excellent ueguent
to me on the skin. There is no daugor
from the use of these vegetable oils, A
great many persons with a naturally dry
skin Ilse a little simple oil after bathing,
and for this purpose a vegetable oil, like oil
ot almonds or olive oil, is tc be preferred to
anything else,
Clothes should always be well shaken out
when put out to dry. If one is in a hurry
to get the clothes dried quickly they may be
passed through the wringer a second time.
After they are dry they ought not to Intug
and switeh as it soils thetn and wears them
out, They may be taken from the line when
slightly damp and folded end laid in the
basket. Tablecloths iron better to trinke
quite damp and lay awhile and afterwards
stretoh, a person standiog at etteh end. I
never starch tablecloths unless they are red
and then oidy slightly. I have slightly
starched red uapkins. They seem nicer done
so.
If I have many colored prints I make
near starch, two tablespoonfuls of flour to
three quarts of boiling water. First stir
the flour into a half pint of cold water until
it is all smooth ; and then pour it into the
water while boiling and stn. well. After
cooking add two spoonfuls, of fine salt and
a bit oflard; strain through the herb stt ainer.
By blueing it a little it may be used fora]1
but the fine starching and stays m the
clothes better than lumpy starch.
Clothes that are starched seem nicer if
well ironed and they keep clean much teen-
er. If linen is made clamp before ironing it
will have a fine gloss when well ironed, es en
if it is not starched. Hold tbe sheets, next
the pillow slips ; the towels and kerchiefs I
spread in one pile with the napkins. I
make att.= boiled stareh of the lump starch
and clip the collate, cuffs, shirt fronts, ate.,
when 1 hang them out. When ironing I
make cold starch, allowing two teaspoonfuls
for every shirt and collar and ;MTh. I make
the starch in a largo bowl. Dip the bosom
or collar in and rub it so as to get the staroh
well into the cloth, wring dry, fold and let
it lay a few hours, I thiek it best to iron the
starched clothes first before one gets warm
and tired.
(1101 ntoNs wins .Tom 1:1 tom
should he kept where it 10 ry, away from
steam, Never keep them in the lower
oven of the range, for they will be injured
by the conatant heat and will later be
rough and fall al holes. It is well to wipe
the irons al over with a damp cloth before
heating. It removes all loose dirt and
(males from the iron. Have a goad fire,
but not too hot.
, The ironing board should be covered with
sievetal thicknesses of cloth and fastened
tightly with tacks at sides and ends. Iron
the towels and rho when doing the starch..
ed clothes, so as to keop the irons from
burning; have a coarse paper end& cloth to
clean the iron with, a little Nese= upon a
paper will keep the iron smooth, Unfold
the linen, end wipe it carefully with a clean
cloth.
The neck band of a shirt ahould be ironed
firot, the beak may be folded in the °entre
and ironed, then the,bands and alcoves.
Next iron each eide of the bosom and
beneath it. Smooth the bosom out, laying
the folds straight. If there are wrinkles,
let them come at the lower end of the bosom,
wipe off carefully. Try the iron upon a
paper or eloth and do not let it scorch. I
commence at the right side first andiron up
to the neelc-band ; after getting that smooth,
iron the oe,,ter, and then tho other side.
By ironing some time with a moderately
warrn iron the linen iney have a belnitifnl
polish. Lay the bosom on the front and
fold the shirt each sido of the bosom back
• of it, laying the &ewe, down smoothly,
hang it upou the frames so hist the width of
the -b000in will show, Bands nuil skew's
Rouse:Work for Spring.
At this scaeon nf the year, when spring
npens, there are ordinevity iseme praterves
mid sweet pickles left ever in the etoro
; closet, itill there ie entne debris of empty
, Fans ;eel jelly etre en the shelyme which it
, is better to see to before the warm weather
comes. 11 they are met attended to now,
in ample dine, it is quite likely that they
will lc left till the new sanning season ar•
rives, anti must he et -wiled into the multi-
plieity of duties which conic at that, time.
During the 000l days of April, before the
vegetar cleaning time comes, it is well to
put the cellar in order und to °tette out
closets and pantries, and the preserve closet
1 is one ot the first, which demands attention.
Little can be done with the old store of
last year's pickles if they are kept over the
,
season, so it is better to use them up before
warm oc•ather comes, there are few
pickles that are better for keeping over the
season. Walnut pickles, ono of tho very
best pickles we heve, and welnut catsups
are not considered thoroughly ripe till they
are two years old. These, therefere, should
be put up in bottles sealed up from the air,
and when the store closet to cleared of its
contente each bottle should be wrapped in
paper 1(1 exclude all light. Anil while upon
this enbject it should be remembered that
a preserve closet should always be a dark
eloset, if poseiblo, as light is always as de-
structive as heat. In eAlitiou to darkness
in the closet, however, it is ;eke to keep
bottles of canned fruit Bud delicate pre-
serves iu papers. All preserves and ell
canned fruit and canned vegetables which
are not likely to be used up before summer.
1 time should now bo wrapped up in fresh
papers and set outside while the closet is
being thoroughly cleaned. When this has
been done to youe satisfaction and it is aired
and dried, sprinkle abundance of powdered
borax over the shelves. Put clean, white
paper over them. The beet paper for such
purpose is the white paper on which news
papers arc printed, and a cheap quality of
this can be purchased at 111 cents a quire of
paper manufacturers. It pays to buy thorn
though clean newspapers will answer the
purpose.
When the closet is onoe arranged with
its ehelving table, set back those bottles
and jars which have been wrapped up in
paper to lost over the summer. Remember
that the lowest shelf is the best place to
put these, and not the upper, became the
lowest /5 coolest in summer, and in ease of
the contents workine they will not run over
all tho other shelves. Put the presenes
and pickles which you have selected to use
up before summer in some pIaae by them.
selves. Now attend to the etnply bottles,
jelly bowls and pickle jars. Dust them all
out, if they have been thoroughly washed,
as they should have been, alter they were
emptied, It is scarcely worth while to use
all rubbers at ell, new ones are so very
inexpensive and the risk is no gresain using
old ones, It is well enough to buy it oom-
pieta new supply for all jars. Pet all the
covers on the jars, but leave the rubbers in
the package in which they eame until you
need to use then. Reverse all the jelly
howls and pickle jars on the shelves, so the
dust will not settle in them, for there ie no
oloset, however tightly closed, where some
recaliemn of dust will not drift in.
When the closet is all in order shut it
tight, and feel the satisfaction that when
fruit comes in upon you of a sudden for pre-
serving it svill not be neeessary to rush
about and hunt up jars to store it away in.
Ourions Portuguese OnSto in,
Among the Portuguese at Fayed, where
oneeopent a winter, writes Colonel Higgin-
son, the young gentlemen were expected to
wear black troneers to parties in winter, and
white le snonner ; but to deckle on which
partioular evening summer began was the
point of difficulty, so the young gm would
sometimes go to the house inblaok, with the
white garments under their arms, ready to
peep in through the window end take a
hasty eensuo of blaok and white legs. If the
latter prevailed they would make their toilet
afreeh in the bushes outside, It woo not a
:matter of social easto,,for they wore all of
the same easto ; it was only% wish not tobe
singular.
The rarest thing in all Arizona, it is sad,
is a thunder otorm. Sometitnes there lo not
elm it year.
hut the uttack leaves
all theee evidences behind it. So here
again the ielvituittgo is 00 its Hide.
With referetwe to the question of the
use of thee:oleo; pewder by the artillery,
the general idea seems to lie Ora it was all
a gain to the side \shish thought more of
killing its enemy Dian of avoiding being
killed itself. It enormously facilitates the
maintenance of fire discipline within the
battery, permits of continentiu Inc even at
the most lapel rate, fur no smoke interferes
with the laying e1 the glum, aud, above all
things, them, the beam of the Men by en.
abling them to seo the remelts of their fire.
As a means of eoncealmeut it is of uo use
at all, for even at exteetne rauges of :5,000
yards and upward the flash of discharge he
always distinctly visible, and at fighting
Lunges the flash enables one to note exactly
the position of tne enemy's guns. Thi
was not always possible with tho olcl pow-
ders, for the smoke obscured the object and
prevented 0310'9 picking up au exact point
to aim at.
The artillery will be far from regretting
the loss of the two clouds which hung, the
one iu froet of their own and the other in
front of the euemy's guns. Smoke is a cover
added to that furnish( d by the grotoul, end
no one has over been anxious for hie oppon-
ent to have covers which he himself could
oot turn to advantage. If both are depriv-
ed of this covet' victory will belong to him
who, all else being equal, can mei skilfulle,
supply the deficiency.
Maneuvers will hereafter probehly take
place orer lereer arum, before the actual
fighting begins, and something of an
Inli-
tn'a creft aednateral keeonese will be need- I
fel ou the part of staff officers, Smoke hes I
been so good a cover on many occasious that I
ito aletense will impose new contlitiops, and
eatureletiv.e, will have to be emelt more ex-
tensively utilized. With the vimishine
poetry of the ontere battle the proeo of a
new eea will begin, in which combat will
be more like a game of chase in view of the
pieces as a who,e, and new dispositions of
old qualities and virtues will be waeted.
Caution will pay in a smokelees combat, an.
terprise auil vigcir will win as before, bnt
blunders will reeeivert terrible punishment,
fatal to armies and milieus to nations de-
pendent upou thetn.
SHOT HT mat lONCLE.
A Voting Lally in it-trt7i-, Loses Pler Life in a
Love A;Tair.
A Salt Lake City, TJtah, despatch says :—
A terrible tragedy has occurred at Park
City, Litale As a young lady, Grace Fillet.
ling, was Avail:lug along the railway track
yesterday convening with a yourtg nun
named Paradise, the young lady's uncle, Mr.
Trotttn,ait, dogged the footsteps of the
collide. He made a cirenit and got ahead
of them, and hid iu the bush. As the pair
came along Troutman jumped out and shot
the girl twice, once iu the head and once in
the hack. She died. instantly, Then Trout-
man, realizing the enormity of his crime,
sat down beside the body of his neice and
shot hinself iu the head. He ie unconscious
and is expected to die at any moment. Five
months ago the girl absented herself from
home, ancl her family thought the act was
on account of Paradise, though nO
ity• was suspected. B:er uncle, Troutman,
told her if she went any 'nor° with Paradise
be would shoot her. Yesterday be fulfill-
ed his threat.
A Taking Olook,
A novel olcolc luta been exhibited at; St.
Petersburg with a phonograph attachment
that will repeat, at any hear fixed upon,
such orders or announcements as may have
been uommitted to its keeping. What a
boon such au invention will be to the tired
Mouse mother ! Itt the nursery the solemn
timepiece could be nubile to say ; "Children
it is time to get up ; dress quiekly, and do
not dawdle.In the kitchen at au early
hour it would be ready with, "Breekfitst at
8 sharp, Mary, don't forget," and in the
dining.room, " Hon must start in ten min-
utee or you will lose yonr train." How de-
lightful it will be to 11 SVC all of these tiro
some daily reminders given ye:seriously, end
what a saving of worry and temper 1 The
dial of this cloak of the future is, we are
told, it human face from whose uncanny
mouth comes the announcement of the
hours, as well as any directions whioh may
be left with it,
It Didn't Even Wake Mtn.
An Ontario farmer going to Memitoba
with his family of nine children missed his
0 -year old son when the train was between
Chaplean and White River. It was in the
night time and the father immediately en-
tered on a search for him, which revealed
tho fact that the boy Waft net On the Omen.
A hand oar was sent back to being in the
mengled remains. The men had to go back
IVa miles before coming on any traces of
the boy, and when the latter Was diSCOver-
ed he was not awake, Ito had stepped
from Lite train whon in full motion and bad
not even fallen I
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An alarming incident is reported froin
Nantygio, where amen horses at Coalbrook-
vale Collieries were found suffocated it Lite
mine. It appears there had been e, heavy
fall of the roof in the airways, and the as-
eumulation of gas overwhelmed the horses,
seven of whom were suffocated, Three
others were fotind•in an exhausted condition,
having exerted themeolves to got loose.
Tho (orders, Inane and ;John Humphreye,
were also overcome by the deleterious effects
of tbo gas, and one of them was brought in.
sensible to the pit banle. Fortin -lately safety
lamps were need at the collieries, or it ter -
rade explosion would have been MUM by
the suddeo inrueh of gas, and awful loos of
life would have enema.
Live Stook in England,
An Engliell correspondent writes -An
entbroalc of foot, and month disease °Sou-
red At the (London) Metropelit an Cottle
Marlon tie. 1,110 beginning of Wee month,
been imported --like 101 previous
importatione of the samo kind into this
eountry, froin abroad, by fereign oath,.
l'he ootturrenett opens up the old eon t 0111 i 01.
\i Itieb 1110 Ti111011 Ni1.1111gly hisists 111,011,1 iiht
the safety ot our oWn Ilalto anti herds and
t 1.e it eecetity of maintaining home supplittatif
milk and meat, make it absolutely peeve.
airy that we Mundtl prohibit tho 1/111101111.
Oen of all live fereign animate, In thie
event these who thy ns Aineritan end
;ailed Me live titIl would NU Inn. materially.
But there seems to I/0 110 likelihood of en
viler to that effeet issuing from the Bolted
et Agrioulture. lt may be slated hero that
the last visitation of the kind MIN 111 IMO,
and that the ravages of the six years whit+
ended in January of Wow pate eitueed
loes to the owners of sleek of no less then
SI'd,i300,060 ; while in dear meat and milk it
wits also estimated to have cost the con
Butner another S30,000,000.
Otte deems° seggests another 1 and I am
reminded here that ti well- kninim Stafford.
shire farmer has licen writing to the Agri-
celltu red liazotte eon...toning the thineilltv of
extirpating swine fever. 111' NI/MB° of the
need of public 11414111X11100.1 of comperetem
hole fanners anil other plinkeepere, in ell
parts of the 00111dry, 111 order to induce the
Preeident of the Board of Agriculture to
obtahe the coneene of Parliament to its sup-
pression by hie Department. Them is no
doubt, he says, that; the restrictions re.
(NNW° for getting rid of SAVIIIN &TOT 11.111
IWO to be much more stringent and exten-
sive than those regaired for stomping out
pleuroloneunionia not only beenose the
former disease is a great deal more scat-
tered, bet ttlso because it is far more infec-
t -douse So far as we ke ow, pleuro.pnetimonia
is spread only through the contact or con-
tiguity of healthy animals with diseased
ooes—probably by the former inhaling the
breath of the latter ; whereas the virus of
swine fever, like that of foot-and.mouth
disease, hangs abont places in which affect-
ed animals have been, and is carried from
place to place by men, dogs, oath, hares,
rabbits, or anything else that inoves frotii
an infected spot to an uninfected one, Still
the troublesome and fatal complaint oast be
got ria of if all 'who are interested in it will
do what they can to help the central author-
ity, and, above all, refrain from worrying
that authority by complaints of the incon-
venience which must necessarily be incurred
or a time.
The eupply of Colonial !mitten still con-
tinues te be immense, and that the wade is
a favorite eye with the English but cher is
known to al familiar with the mothocle of
these gentry. A good story is told iit this
connection by Mr.:Thomas Rowe, id Canter-
Iniry'New Zealand, who recently visite,
Euglas.I with the objeut of becoming bore
acquainted with our markets Inc troy, 1
mutton. lIe reports that 1 lie leteliug het eh
ers now sell New &Mond mutton under the
norm of English breeds. If a leg of the best
mutton is ordered from a butcher, frozen
meat is sent iu nearly all casts, unless where
customer is critical 1110l likes to see the
meat weighed, Eveu then he is not safe.
While in one of tho shops Mr. Itowe Saw a
leg of latnb hung up with the caul fat, as
tuned, over it, and, as it had a black trotter,
it was appareetly of the Down brced. Mr
Bows was talking to the owner when a ens
tomer earne in for a leg of lemb. Taking
hurtful than ally °thee ascot, of de dreet:en
It abash' be earried oil and alit Of ;Wiley
road as soon as it, lathe if meltable.
Now as 10 W10101 WON. Every, road be-
come, ten:unit hy the application of a rellee,
and this N11100I/li11g 1)10011411 is 11114011011
retarded by the quality of the Pollee itaelf,
11 31(1 have a wheel thet lA hk.
0." nom your form Wagon, every time yoll
go down the road with a tml of prod two your
wagon wheels eink into t ho soft. mud, (unit
rilts, mid tend to keep the road in a rough
l'ottv 1!,„ inch " roller " will not
profitably exert its rolling qualities until
Lite intu'l 'woollies nearly dry, A wider
wheel tire NT011111 /WINO your purpose omen
bower ; and 111 Ito farmers of your county
weeld use wheel tires three or four invitee
wide, as are It ,,,L1 abroad, your dirt, mail
would be rolled into piteettleti itondition 115
half the time diet le vow minima to no-
complish this mettle,
Next to water, nothing lo so destrunave
of a good road entente, ite a heavy vehicle
running ou narrow wheels. It has been
proven over and over again that wheele
wit I) .q -inch tires cause only onadtalf the
Wellr 011 1110 r01111 111111/ TOKIIIIN from the 1180
of whoole w•I tit *Melt tires,
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Home (Leese Making,
A correspondent says : I prefer making
cheese in warm weather to butter making,
and its pays emelt bettor. 'This is my way
of managing. We milli site cows and make
O five pound theme from one milking. The
morning's milking makes die largest and
best cheese, using the seine quantity of
nulk ; we have a hoop SIX ill/JINN &MSS, 011
foot high, then in the erchard we have t
cleat nulled to a free, throe feet 11.0111
the ground ; under this we place a levee ten
feet long, ttvidell will rest on the cheese
which ism the hoop, on a board on the top
of o keg ; necessery weights are placed on
tho end of lever. Although this is e, sitilple
way made by a women to press ohmic,
nitultdnes.wers every purpose for ;vhich it is
Now as to curd. blest we strain about
eight gallons of milk into a tin can or
boiler. I make it a little warmer than
fresh from the cow ; then add the rennet (I
use the prepared, findiag it better and
cheaper), stir it web, lot stand until quite
hard curd ; then cut. In a short time
the whey will separate, Mit if it, is slow,
heat some of the whey quite hob, pour
over, stir slowly, let stand ; very soon
you can clip all ofr; then salt, about as much
es you would So much butter, Stir.
ring it well. Spread a 110117 thin oloth over
the hoops and pat the curd in ; bereft round
bon,rd to fit close in hoop; then press light.
ly at first, but increase to aboub forty pounds
on tho end of lever ; take cheese mit and
turn twice in twenty-four hones, removing
cloth each thne to prevent clinging to
cheese.
When doue pressiug take out ; cut two
round pieces of cloth, then put a band
around and sew the end pieces in. This
'MAY 6, 180,2
.A. 13LIEZA.RD,
(0 Ghogitslinitin Tit;»-th-1 le faratice Whet 11
Thing II c,
An lenglitiliman while D
werking on a a -
!iota; farm /811 1.10W11 11/ dinner ono bright
day in Winter. etteltlitely the sun mac 111/..
80111.011, 1111(1 110 temperature in the them fell
moveral degrees. " She's here exelaiieutl
the employer. " Who's hero?" totted the
woranien. " blizem•il," answered the
farmer, The Euglinw
eleen ene to tho win.
dow tied Molted out, There WAN 111.1111./T,
Walillg sound, and IL was ail dark as
night. Thw
e sno, inad
stmof falling, was
driven almig the gt•outiti by a hurriettne, It
was like powdered glees, and froze fast to
evel•ything teuelexl. u old breaking
plow had heen left just outside the bonne
" It meet be removed," said the farmer,
"or it will rabic a snowdrift that may bury
the house." The bInglieliman tweeted to run
not nna 1)006 it.
"Stop ! don't emninit suicide 1" said the
farmer. He made the man put un wool -lined
rublier.hoets and 11 big °newel, and then
wrap up hie ears. Then lie Weil a long line
to his waist, and bade him draW on thlek
gitv°1'1.;you go ottt and catch hold of the
iron.work en the plow •.vith here hands,
your Beek will be taken off tis if you had
laid hold ot reilhot. iron," said the farmer.
" Now line out, throw the plow round the
ruiner of the house, mid then fellotv the
line back to tho house. If you can't find
the plow, coma baelc ttt once. '
The Englislonee intoned the door, bolted
o to where he thought. tho 111011wits, groped
),! about for a minute or two, and rushed back
to the Maw. The hair that showed under
the run (,f Itis fur cap was full of fvoxen
snow, and his face smarted as if scalded.
He made two more attempts before ha found
the ;dew,
When he gut back to the house, OV017
particle of wavinth seemed to have loft Ins
body, and he WEIS shoved into a room WhOre
them WW1 111/BLOT% that ha might thaw out
gradually.
The blizzard lasted three days. The barn
svhere the horses and bullocks were, was
covered by e mountain of snow. While the
men wore digging their way to the stable
door, tho horses could be heard vvhinnying,
when the door was opened they were so
much pleased to eee men as at the prospect
of food and water. Not a morsel would
they eat u n til they had drank,
In one room of the house there was—the
narrator estimated—a ton of snow, which
had been blown in through a small crevice.
There would have been much more if the
hole hail been higher op, as the 011011 only
stopped coining through when that on the
inside had risen to the level of the crevice
Lind plugged up.
keeps MI the flies ana the cheese in
,. shape. Lay them on a shelf where they can
have sunshine and a little shade out doors
. warm enough to start. the better to them ;
turn every day, Yon will find it, will be fit
for use in about ten days,
have written in a very simple way, but
I lind from experience, every few clays, with
my neighbors that they need to lie told
every little thing in order to understand how
to make a cheese. The curing of them may
differ from many, but it is my way and they
come out smooth and very yellow, although
I do not use coloring. Any suggestions or
improvements on the fmegoing plan are iu
order.
this one down the butcher went through the
menet proems of praising it as prime South.
down. It 11,34 weighed, paid for, and order-
ed to be sent to its deetination. As soon as
the easterner teas out of the way the thauk,
which had been dexterously skewered cm to
a leg of New Zealand lamb, was put mirk
for similar use Oh another occasion, and the
butcher said: with o wink to Mr. Rowe,
"Can you do it like that in New Zealand?"
The butcher told his visitor that he suld
twenty New Zealand lambs per week, two-
thirds of them in the way deeeribed, and
that he made El, per carease profit. This
IS not had business—for the butcher.
England. 151. R, DAWES,
A Use for Asafoetida.
0. W. Ea,rlee, president cf the American
Jersey Cattle Club, writes:
I have recently treated a neighbor's
Jersey cow that was an habitual aborter,
and suocooded in getting her to °eery her
calf for the full time. It was apparently a
desperate case, as she had lost three calves
itt enccession, when seven months pregnant;
but as her milk is unusually rich, even for a
Jersey, hor owner was naturally omelette to
hare a calf from hen It is often difficult to
get an aborting cow in calf, but this cow
always held to the first service.
The treattneee VMS addressed to quieting
the nervous system of the COW. ABILfC/CtiC111
is supposed to be an excellent drug for the
purpose; so I precribed a tablespoonful of
the gum, as finely pulverized as possible,
mixed with 0 cut mess, twice a day, begin-
ning the treatment a few days before her
usual time of aborting, (mid continuing it
daily for a month ; after thee oite table-
spoonful a day until the full period of gesta-
tion was accomplished, Should synIptoms
of parturition appear, then the daily dose
Was tO be immediately increased to four,
tablespoonfuls. •
Te drug produced the desired condition
of composure ; in foot, the owner says she
was &nervous cow, but her disposition was
entirely changed, A °nimble physician ad-
vieed me that it was it eafe drug to give in
large doses. Years ago, when I had
epidemio abortion in my herd, I uerid sea.
hetida with groat suoteess and in one ease a
cow that had lost two calves carried the en-
tire term, although for the last three weeks
of her fame partnrition awned imminent,
daily. Duritig these three weeks we gave
her four tableepoonfuls of the gum daily, I
bad reason to be thankful for the remedy,
sinee the eow in question was Gracile ad,
which thereafter proved a regular breeder
and made mo 751 poends six ounoes of but-
ter in a year on moderate dairy rations, and
the oaf she dropped was Signoretto, that
gave me 080 pounds, six and ono -half °mime,
ttl o year on seeond calf, au average daily
grain ration of less then eight pounds,
.A. cow threatened with abortion should
be separated from the herd to swum quiet,
and relaxing food withheld, though, of
course, her bowolo must not bo allowed to
grow oonstipated,
Wide Wheal Tires,
The great destroyers of thew:minion earth
reacher° -water end nerrow wheel tiros, If a
deep side ditch could bo mainteineci 00 molt
elk 01 1110 ordinary dirt road andlcept clear
so as to receive and carry oft the running
water, the quality of Rio road would be frn-
proved in moat oases 100 per cent; This is
a point which farmers- remin to meagerly
understand, or at all events, ono which they
ilarely,put to practical use. Water has 1(0plea° in any road, good Of bad, It to nide
Cow in Oalf.
When one has to reekou upon his own
dairy atoek, brought up under his own ob-
servation and the records of service have
been earefolly kept, 11 18 not difficult to tell
whether any partinular 0050 Or heifer is in
calf. But when buying stack to add to youe
own dairy heed it becomes a matter of itn-
portance to ascertain if an animal is preg.
mutt. To tell this take a drop of milk fresh-
ly drawn from her, let it fall iiito a glass of
clear water, let the glass stand upon a table
between the light Red the observer. If the
drop of milk is readily tdisseminated
through the water, the cow is not in calf.
But if the drop of milk sinks to the bottom
without clouding the wale,or doing so only
to a very slight degree and for a short die -
tame, the cow is in II calf. This is the re-
sult of tho increased gravity of milk during
pregnancy. A good mita cow should bring
e calf every year from the time she is two
it4m,If yews old till she id nine. After
that as a rule a cow is not proatahle for the
(Wry, Fron four to eight years of age is the
most, profitable milking years of a cow.
When a heifer IN WW1 her first ottlf her
tulder will show gradual distension and she
should be made accustomed to having it
handled and robbed. If it, gots too full noar
calving, milk should bo drawn oecasionally.
A Cute Boy.
Among the guests at a large West•end
hotel was a maiden lady from the rural dis-
Wets, The landlord noticed about nine
o'clock every night she would come down-
stairs, get a pitcher of water, and return to
her room.
" One night," he said, "I made BO bad
as to speak to her, and nsk her why she did
not ring the bell for a hall -boy to bring the
water to her."
" There is no bell in my room," said the
lady.
" No bell in your room, madam I Pray
let me show you," end with that I took the
pitcher of wetter in my hand ancl escorted
her to hoe aparttnent.
Entering the room, I pointed out to her
the knob of the eleetrio boll. She gazed at
it with a sort of horror, and then exelahn.
ed : "Dear me I IS that a boll? Why, the
hall -boy told me that it was the firmalarm
signal, and I must never tench 1G except in
case of fire 1"
And that is how the hall -boy saved
self the trouble of going for water.
Evidence Enough to ConViot.
" Show Inc a family where all the chil-
dren are boys, and I'll show you a man. who
is the forceful one, the brains of tho font-
ily,"
Det d o rtitim I've mode a study
of ib, I've looked up particular families.
If you find all gibe the woman is really the
head of the family. She is the one who
really manages things, td.thongh she may be
11 gtdietoo7,
litt,lewotneet for all that."
‘ y
" Of course, I've noticed when le io prat ty
evenly divided between boys and gilds the
abilltbos ore, pretty evenly divided, too, By
*the way, you're married, I believe 7"
, AYZ."ohifdren 1"
" Two. Both girlan'
" Oh 1"—Moston Globe,
Thom are between 1,600 and 1,700 hew-
yers it Boston, with scarcely buoinems for
200,
An Instrument of Torture.
Paris, Frane.e, is just uew sintering tor-
tures NI. the halide of one of tImse itigetitous
mortals whose ntivent into tins world is
seemitigly to indict as much misery upon
suffering humaniey 114 /11111Si1110. This is ie
110511 automatic machine which is applied to
tho common nr garden variety of the barrel
organ, on instillment far worse than any
designed by the Inquisition, for they tortur-
ed silently, and so agitated one eense leas
than the organ. Its mode of operation is as
foliows : The organ grinder places the in-
strument in front of the house whose in -
'name lie desires to torture, then whole up
the machine like a clock, and adjourns to a
neighboring cafe, out of ear Shot, of course,
and there awaits developments. The organ
once wound up will be ground autonettically
for an hour unless stopped. After it has
emitted horrible sounds for about to quarter
of au hour, the people generally find they
have hail enough of it, and having voted it
O nuisance, send a servant out to see what
cen be done to stop it. Ile reads the col.
lowing notice which is placed conspicumisly
on elie machine:
"1 r you wieh this organ to stele
Pete penny in the slot."
The tienny is of course dropped in, du
organ is imiet -
" and et ewe like a pnultice, comes
To heal the blows almond."
At the oncl of about five minutes, how-
ever, the oi•gan begins playing again, maims.
to be stopped by the application of more
coins,
Advioe to Ministers.
Don't drive, but lead,
Don't be afraid of any man.
Don't be anybody bid youeself.
Don't follow anybody's advice.
Don't lash the sinner instead of his sin,
Don't tell all you know in one sermon.
Don't feed people with nobakeci dough.
Don't offer manna you have not tasted,
yourself.
Don't ask any one to work harder than
you do yourself.
Don't offer sentimental confection of in-
telleotuml shavings.
Don't spare the people's poukets,, for
therein lie their hearts.
Don't restrain too intich ; it is wel often
that stem escapes.
Don't expect tho Lord to be always in as
big a hurey es emu two.
Don't live in the third oeneury, nor in
the twentieth ceutury, nor in the clouds.
Don't despise the rich, dishonor the poor
nor esteem yourself wiser than your breth-
ren,
Progrees in Balance.
The great robber of moisture on the plains
itt tho West Is evaporation, The activity
of the winds is so great and constant that
more vapor is raised from exposed water
surfaces than in many regione of greater
licat. The annual evaporation is seldom if
ever less than four feet, and may rise to
eight feet. Water etorage upon high plains
where there aro no Weise, if not wholly& de-
lusion, is held to be somewhat delusive,
More hopeful is the expedient of deep till-
age, for hidden from sun and winds in the
loose soil and subsoil, the moleture will thus
be preserved at the very spob where it is
needed to sustain vegetation.
Some experiments in conneetion with the
artificial production of clouds by hunting
oases of resinous matter wore lately made
in Paris, but were only partially successful
on account of the wind carrying the oloads
latoSti5g010inthaell °Crd'iniledat:y systems of duplex
telegeaphy aro generally ettid to double the
capacity of a Hue, it is now quite (dearly
understood that up to the present they hove
been incapable of doing it,
M. le Chatelier elates that by means of
Ma pyrometer be has discovered that the
temperatures which worm in melting ateel
and itt other industrial operations have been
overestimated,
Vivo mon were working al Eddy's mill,
Hull, P. Q., on Tuesday • afternoon, When
inn frame work on which they wore Mending
gaveway, anti they fell into the ndll flume,
re= got sefely mit of the current, but ona
named Daniolo, who drowiuxl,